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by datguacdoh 8y ago
You're basing that on pure speculation so be careful what conclusions you're drawing from it. Chromebooks have historically gotten very good support, even though they tended to be relatively underpowered - the pixelbook isn't
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
Even on a modern pixel 3, the slider animation is a bit behind. Everything else looks smooth, but the slider definitely feels "off".
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/google-duplex-restaurant-res... Sounds like they are gearing up for a launch.
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
They did focus on these early though. Literally their first fully autonomous drive on public roads was with a blind individual, explaining how the technology was going to be transformative. Video: https://youtu.be/ArYTxDZzQO
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
Happened to us a few months ago. We got a pair of baby bath kits we didn't ask for. We looked afterward, and saw the ads mixed into our list with no way to remove them. Incredibly slimy practice.
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
That's built in already as part of the do not disturb feature. You can set a list of important contacts that can always get through.
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
> On Chromebooks, Chrome's fantastic profile system is deliberately conflated with Chrome OS login sessions, which makes it harder for one user to maintain multiple independent browsing contexts than when using Chrome on other platf
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
You should read the article, the headline is very misleading :)
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
They use remote assistance for tricky emergency situations. That's a pretty big distinction. The remote assistance can be called in to help the car if it gets into a completely unknown state, but otherwise the cars are self driving. h
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
Most remote desktop apps have a form of USB passthrough. And I believe you can also do this in a variety of ways with ssh plus some combo of libusb.
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Google open-sources internal Grab and Go laptop loaner program to businesses(blog.google)
3 points by datguacdoh 8y ago|0 comments
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Google and LG’s New 1443 PPI VR Display(uploadvr.com)
2 points by datguacdoh 8y ago|0 comments
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
In many parts of the world SMS is still very popular (most popular?) and upgrading that experience seems a net win. I wish there was a push for end to end encryption but I doubt the carriers would have agreed to that given that in many coun
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by datguacdoh 8y ago
He mentions in the video that when he asked Google reps why they didn't just do iMessage, they claimed it was because of anti competition fears if they forced their own proprietary message platform on everyone's device, including
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
I don't agree that an iPad is more durable for kids than the education focused Chromebooks, like the new lenovos that came out with drop resistance and spill proof keyboards: https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/lapt
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Upvote: Google's open source, multi-platform binary whitelisting solution(github.com)
3 points by datguacdoh 9y ago|1 comments
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Google Fuchsia: Changing the way apps are built by making everything modular(9to5google.com)
3 points by datguacdoh 9y ago|0 comments
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Google Fuchsia: A system built for 'Instant Apps' on steroids(9to5google.com)
46 points by datguacdoh 9y ago|29 comments
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
Walt Mossberg has a funny "series" on his Twitter where he screencaps all the blatent failures he has with Siri. Many times, he or a follower will attach a screenshot of Assistant completing the action. It's not scientific by
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
The difference isn't just the price. It's that all of these phones are also running an optimized version of Android that is going to run on the lower specs better than anything else. It doesn't matter if the specs seem the sa
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
I was also a long time TiVo user (3 units in 3 rooms for about 10 years) and gave up on them this year. Now I'm just using YouTube TV which has an unlimited DVR, and with a couple Chromecast and Roku devices under displays now, I don&#
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
They are already doing this in Arizona: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16615290/waymo-self-drivi...
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
Come on, they said this in the actual article. "But the vehicle will also have two additional satellites hitchhiking along for the ride: prototype probes built by SpaceX to test out the technology needed to beam down internet from spac
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
Project shield?
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
If Reader was running on old infrastructure, it's very possible it could have cost more than that just to maintain status quo.
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2017 California Self-Driving Car Report: Waymo and GM Lead(theverge.com)
3 points by datguacdoh 9y ago|1 comments
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
We wrote a lot more about what we did to ensure then end user experience was good in https://research.google.com/pubs/pub46366.html You're right that it's still early for companies that don't have the sa
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
There's a lot more about the end user experience in the most recent published paper: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub46366.html
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
Yeah you definitely want to keep in mind that this cert, and especially Course 1, has to be accessible to anyone. So it's building a foundation of common knowledge for the other courses which absolutely go into much more details.
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by datguacdoh 9y ago
I sent this on to the right people. We audited the course and had a private external beta, so it's surprising to see obvious errors like this. I imagine there might be something else going on with the labs.

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